Like her Red-Tails in Love, Marie Winn's Central Park in the Dark explores an unnoticed world in a series of narratives about the denizens, human and animal, of an iconic American park. Her beguiling account of these city-locked lakes and woodlands at night takes the reader through the cycle of seasons as experienced by nocturnal beasts (raccoons, bats, black skimmers, and sleeping robins among them), insects (moths, wasps, fireflies, crickets), and slugs (in all their unexpected randiness). Winn's famous hawk protagonists Pale Male and Lola return, but this time she spotlights the lives of 38 screech owls in the park.